The transgendered have become holy objects because, unlike those of us who are frozen in a conventional relation between our sex and our gender, and are trapped in the matrix of objective and pre-existing natural categories, the transgendered demonstrate the supremacy, and so the apotheosis, of the subjective.
In a secular religion that denies the metaphysically transcendent, the subjectivity of the individual must become the Divine; the creativity of the individual must be radically enhanced to encompass the world-creating (and world-destroying) power formerly ascribed to God. Transgenderism shows that this is possible. It is therefore of tremendous ideological importance, and so becomes a holy blessing, a special gift.
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That’s fascinating, and so nicely expressed.
Thanks, Jacques.
What Jacques said.
Also, beware of transgendered geeks bearing gifts!
That’s very interesting; I’d say revelatory and eye-opening, except those connote I instantly perceive it to be true, but I will have to think about its truth and significance. Nevertheless it shares with notions I would call revelatory that it is completely novel to me, a welcome addition to my stock of ideas–the first for a while.
Absolutely brilliant.
“the modern liberal-Enlightenment-Marxist-social-reformist-pragmatist-therapeutic-sexually liberated-civil rights-feminist-GLBTQ-social constructionist-poststructuralist/postmodernist ‘tradition.’” A.k.a. the secular Church.
Lifted from FencingBearatPrayer.blogspot.com
the Niceness-Cosmopolitan Creed
Reckon that “holy objects” is why that Spacey feller has gone the way he has?
I wonder what’s gonna be the direction when, the hammer drops on Nickelodeon?
Wow. Just checked back in after a while. Glad I did.
I’ve been struggling to conceive of how to express elements of the new religion succinctly for a while. Your formulation just blows me out of the water. I share Harold’s reaction.
That is so true it’s a revelation unto itself.
Every fully-transitioned transgender a Siddhartha. Our new Holy “Men”.